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Biowaste from the Food Industry as a Biomass Resource of Foods

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2024) | Viewed by 1958

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Yunpu Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Engineering Research Center for Biomass Conversion, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
Interests: carbon materials; catalytic pyrolysis; value-added products; biodiesel production; hydrocarbon-rich fuel; nanoparticles; sustainable biorefinery; biohydrogen
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Dr. Qi Zhang

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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Engineering Research Center for Biomass Conversion, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
Interests: biomass waste; adsorbent materials; microalgae cultivation; anaerobic digestion; wastewater treatment; wine wastewater; resource recovery; bioproducts
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Dr. Xian Cui

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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Engineering Research Center for Biomass Conversion, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
Interests: agro-industrial waste; biomass valorisation; value-added products; polysaccharide; integrated microbial bioprocess; anaerobic digestion; value-added biocompounds
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Dr. Xiaoxiao Song

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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, China-Canada Joint Laboratory of Food Science and Technology (Nanchang), Key Laboratory of Bioactive Polysaccharides of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
Interests: food chemistry; food hydrocolloids

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The world’s demand for food is increasing with the development of human society. Every year, the food industry produces inevitably large amounts of biowastes, including gaseous, liquid, and solid biowastes generated during the processing of cereals, grease, condiment, meat product, drinks, instant food, biscuits, frozen foods, puffed food, candy products, tea products, liquor, vegetable products, fruit products, egg products, aquatic products, starch products, bean products, health foods, infant formula, food additives, etc. These biowastes were a source of biomass not only with no or little pollution of pathogenic microbes, heavy metals, antibiotics, pesticides, etc., but also contain considerable nutrients and resources, such as polysaccharide, protein, lipids, amino acid, and trace elements. Conversion of these biomass into high value foods, foods additives, raw food materials, bioenergy, and biomaterial is a way of resource recovery which can make the food industry sustainable and environmentally friendly. The main goal of this Special Issue is to promote the conversion and utilization of biowaste from the food industry as a biomass resource for food, bioenergy, and biomaterial production.

Prof. Dr. Yunpu Wang
Dr. Qi Zhang
Dr. Xian Cui
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Dr. Xiaoxiao Song
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • food solid waste
  • food wastewater
  • waste-to-resource
  • bioenergy
  • biomaterial

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Optimizing Chlorella vulgaris Cultivation to Enhance Biomass and Lutein Production
by Kangping Wu, Jiangling Lai, Qi Zhang, Yunpu Wang, Xian Cui, Yuhuan Liu, Xiaodan Wu, Zhigang Yu and Roger Ruan
Foods 2024, 13(16), 2514; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13162514 - 12 Aug 2024
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Lutein is widely used in medicine, health care, and food processing due to its antioxidant effects; however, it is difficult for the traditional extraction of lutein using marigolds to meet the increasing market demand for lutein. To achieve high-efficiency lutein production, we investigated [...] Read more.
Lutein is widely used in medicine, health care, and food processing due to its antioxidant effects; however, it is difficult for the traditional extraction of lutein using marigolds to meet the increasing market demand for lutein. To achieve high-efficiency lutein production, we investigated the effects of different conditions on the biomass accumulation and lutein yield of Chlorella vulgaris. The optimized cultivation conditions include mixotrophic cultivation using sodium nitrate as a nitrogen source, maintaining a total-organic-carbon-to-total-nitrogen ratio of 12:1, a total-nitrogen-to-total-phosphorus ratio of 10:1, and lighting duration of 24 h. The results of the study indicated that under these specific conditions, Chlorella vulgaris attained a final biomass concentration, biomass productivity, and growth yield of 6.08 g·L−1, 1.00 g·L−1·d−1, and 1.67 g biomass/g TOC, respectively. Additionally, the concentrations of total chlorophyll, carotenoid, lutein, and protein reached 139.20 mg·L−1, 31.87 mg·L−1, 15.02 mg·L−1, and 2.17 g·L−1, respectively, and the content of lutein reached 2.47 mg·g−1. This study supplies a theoretical basis for the industrial application of lutein production using Chlorella vulgaris. Full article
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